Consultants have welcomed a commitment by the Minister for Health to resolve a dispute over pay discrimination.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) says it is a "national disgrace" that 7,000 operations were cancelled this year because of hospital overcrowding.

Hospital consultants are threatening industrial action in a row over pay for those hired since 2012.

A psychiatrist has described cannabis as a “destructive, nasty, evil drug” and that a lot of people are trying to say it does not have negative consequences.

A doctors organisation still maintains cuts imposed on GPs’ fees to stabilise the State’s finances are far greater than that claimed by the Department of Health.

Trolley numbers, waiting lists and quality levels will deteriorate across the health service next year despite an “apparent” rise in health spending, the Irish Medical Organisation claims.

The group representing doctors in Ireland has said there is a direct link between the hospital waiting list crisis and the lack of consultant recruitment.

Discrimination, “pigeon-holing”, delaying having children for the sake of a career, and poor career progress are among the challenges facing women across the medical and legal professions, new research shows.

Babies will be given new vaccines from the start of next month after a deal between the Department of Health and the Irish Medical Organisation.

The next government will inherit “a crisis of enormous proportions” in the health services, doctors have warned.

The Irish Medical Organisation is calling for a whole system approach to solve the problem of crowding in emergency departments.

Medics are calling on the Government to declare a national emergency in our hospitals.

Junior hospital doctors’ training hours do not need to be counted as working hours, the European Court of Justice has ruled, in an unexpected result.

The Irish Medical Organisation says key concerns it raised over free GP care for under sixes have been “comprehensively dealt” with by the HSE and the Department of Health.

More than 200 Indian doctors working in the Irish health service continue to be ineligible for career-essential training posts despite treating patients on a daily basis, an anomaly repeatedly condemned by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

Health Minister Leo Varadkar will adress the Irish Medical Organisation's AGM in Kilkenny this afternoon.

Boys are being exposed to certain preventable cancers and sexually transmitted diseases because of the State’s continuing failure to include them in a vaccination programme available to girls since 2010.

Some medical card patients, unable to afford prescription charges, are not taking vital medication and suffering strokes as a result, research will show.

Minister of State at the Department of Health Kathleen Lynch has said the cost of delivering free GP care to under 6s and over 70s was always going to be higher than the €37m the Government had hoped for.

Hospital consultants have overwhelmingly rejected a new proposal to end a pay dispute.

The Irish Medical Organisation had to pay almost €120,000 to Revenue following an audit, it has confirmed.